Crack is wack, chingus! This 1980’s slogan is perfect for SBS drama Lovers of the Red Sky (Hong Chun Gi) which wrapped up this week from its wild run. What was a promising sageuk devolved gradually into a crazier and poorly acted near farce by the end. The plot was a one track pony and the behavior of all the characters made zero sense to logic. With that said, the final episode actually wasn’t that bad, it was the best episode since episode 4 so long ago and it felt like the writer actually had a solid ending in mind to deliver this. We learn young Ha Ram possessed by the Demon killed his own dad by accident and it sucks the King kept it a secret so much wasted angst. Chun Gi makes a deal with the Painting Goblin to properly repaint the Royal Portrait that can successfully contain the Demon even if it makes her crazy. Prince Juhyang is locked up by the King for his evil deeds but not before he tells daddy dearest that he’s got the Demon poison in him and needs to absorb the Demon to save his own life. Sorry Juju no one cares at this point.
Ha Ram has some last minute emo session before getting his act together and heading to the sealing ceremony. Chun Gi and her painting friends work feverishly to finish the painting but the Demon takes over Ha Ram before the ceremony even starts. He breaks through and sucks back his eyes from Chun Gi. Mountain Granny and Tiger Girl finally do more than watch from the sidelines and try and contain the Demon long enough for now blind Chun Gi to finish the portrait, which she does when her dead dad possesses her. The portrait is finished and Mountain Granny sacrifices herself to drag the Demon into it sealing him. Ha Ram and Chun Gi pledge their everlasting love and the second half of the drama is all the happily every after cuteness. Strangely the two leads finally have chemistry once Ha Ram can see again which means Ahn Hyo Seob just can’t act as a blind person hence his suckage the last episodes. One would think this is it but no the last 5 minutes of the episode is Prince Yangmyung rushing back to the Palace to don his warrior outfit and face off against Prince Juhyang who busted out of prison after 5 years ready to stage a coup. The end.
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I think the drama went downhill after episode 6 (the painting contest). I had just finished watching episode 12 and it was a struggle. With 4 episodes more to go for me, idk if I can bring myself to complete watching. Maybe I will just watch it to keep me company while I'm on treadmill.
Haha i actually watched eps 9-11 on the treadmill/doing housework lol. I lost interest after ep 6 too. the writing just fell apart after that imo
I didn't watch this drama but this 6-episode thing is interesting. I've had a feeling for a while now that dramas are fully written up to about ep. 6. From there on they're being written in real time, and many dramas seem to weaken or go sideways at about that point. Interesting to hear other people confirm that.
@kellie that's an interesting observation. I usually drop dramas at the ep 4 mark if they can't reel me in sufficiently. This one became so weird in ep 7. They had a mild romantic buildup through the eps, had sth "romantic" happen (won't spoil it for ya) and then in ep 7 on were back to acting like complete strangers. It was so jarring. Could never buy the romance amongst everything else
I agree. After the painting contest, they didn't broadcast due to choseok festival. After that they resumed broadcasting and it failed to capture my interest anymore. Afterwards I stopped watching and just read recaps.
I agree... After ep 6 it was a mess in terms of story,logic,romance and continuity.
The drama was the dumbest thing ever written and did not need 16 episodes for all the nonsense they kept recycling. Also why does anyone think that AHS and especially KYJ are even remotely believable as almost 30 year olds let alone parents with a child. It just looked like they were little kids playing house and the acting was so stiff and awkward. Overall the drama was a total dud and definitely not worth any of the hype and it is no wonder SBS completely gave up on it. The acting was mediocre at best and the chemistry was so forced it made no sense expect for the fact that they were the leads and hence the OTP. Good riddance its finally over.
agree with the age. no offence. i blame the writer.
This drama is a classic example when those involved assume that when they put together a PD and writer well known for previous good works and 2 pretty and handsome actors smiling with blinding white teeth....everything will be a success without any efforts?!?! Lazy writing, awful or none-at-all directing and mediocre acting! Only the painting competition was good.
Oh, the only good acting was the Ma Wang (i m kidding of cos!) but even then.... can he please lose his obsession with his eyes?!!!
A complete waste of time drama with no plot, no acting and worst directing ever.
Seriously the acting just kept getting worse and the PD is also to blame for that. He didn't bother giving any instructions it seems and it doesn't even feel like he was invested in the drama. What was that weird ending? What is even the point of that!
Yes. I don't know how the director let the poor acting slide. It's like none of the cast and crew cared after a certain point.
Am hearing about the ending scene in the finale and ppl clamouring for S2. Please don't. Nothing about this drama needs or deserves a second season. It's quite literally the worst drama i've seen in awhile and im suprised this drama got greenlighted. It could have been so much better tbh.
Trust me nobody except blind twitter stans of the leads with no taste are interested in another season. The writing was a mess and the drama was chore to finish.
HAHAHA truer words have never been said! I see similar comments on Mydramalist and I just.. *shakes head*
This writer needs to be banned from writing anything else. One note characters with no personality like someone said below, utter mess with nothing making sense. Long drawn out "conflicts" over nothing. ughh I could go on
Well, we will see if your statement is totally true. Let's wait if this drama and the actors will be nominated and get an award. Then we will conclude
Not surprised SBS pulled the plug on promoting this. One the woman with the insanely competitive time slot and the very talented Honey Lee in her first ever lead role must have taken the channel by surprise and turned out the better drama by and large. LOTRS was a waste of budget and time slot.
First ever lead role? What happened to fiery priest? Was she a supporting character?
imo in fiery priest it was more kim nam gil lead with her as co lead, it was team effort. one the woman is literally the honey lee show, she hardcarries on her own and the rest just follows. love her btw very happy her drama is doing great
Before this, she was *a lead* in Iron Daughters-in-Law and Modern Farmer, but in One the Woman, she is the titular woman.
Not a waste wof budget imao. Lots of people enjoy the drama. It even has a highest viewership in its end.
Considering that it is directed by Popular, baser on popular novel and aired in a highly-rated channel, it's finale and ratings are considered underwhelming.
It is a waste of budget. If SBS felt it had been worth the budget, they would have promoted the heck out of it. You would also be seeing the cast on various varieties n interviews, mag pictorials etc. Milking the sh*t out of the drama n themselves.
High viewership means nothing. Esp for this drama. Lots of us were tuning in yet not watching/playing it in the background. Only rabid stans assume that ppl were seriously interested.
I couldn't stand her overacting, so I didn't continue watching her drama
FYI.
Lovers of the red sky is the 2nd drama from SBS that they're providing/producing the merchandise due to the drama's popularity. The other one was penthouse.
"Hon Chun Gi launched a historical drama fever"
After Hon Chun Gi ended with favorable review, attention is now focus on which currently airing and upcoming historical dramas that will pick up baton from Hon Chun Gi to continue the popularity of sageuk.
Lovers of the Rd Sky is evaluated to have revived the popularity of sageuk that subside since the sageuk controversy earlier this year
The characters had no personality whatsoever and the last episode was half filler with the overly sweet ending with that child which was super cringe and very 2000s. Just ugh.
Seeing TTON trending on theqoo yet again I now know what to watch to cleanse my eyes and brain of this mess. A drama can be cute as a button and still have strong female characters that don't spend most of their time crying over a guy and being rescued. Not that said guy was even worth any of that.
When the teaser came out forever ago, I was so excited for this one! And for crying out loud some of the shots in the last episode showed the blue screen.
But most of all, I really wish for my boy Gong Myung to get a lead role in at least one smash hit.
The end was really weird. Why ending with the 2 princes fighting? It doesn't make any sense. The story was about HCG and painting... It's sad the writer forget about that because the contest was really the best part.
The love story was disapointing. They didn't really developped it when they were adults, everything rested on one day when they were young and it's like they didn't change at all...
I would like a drama with Prince Yul! He deserves to be happy.
Alls of your comen is so negative. Feel free guys and happy ok.
Agreed so negative.....be happy...can you all do better???
Yes dho..i dontreally like the way the critize the writter...hello why am i here?bcause i love this drama a lot .but why does this comment section full with bad comments only?!u're the only person i saw who posted positive comment..
AHS is only capable of being in side roles. His so-called acting here is a joke.
Yes. I was surprised when he got "promoted" to lead roles. None of his supporting roles before that was so mind-blowingly good it deserved a promotion to lead. All the dramas he's been leads in have been duds OR hard carried by another actor (RD2).he's very mediocre. Average at best n can't generate chemistry with his Co leads.
And some people worships him like he is god.
For me he is like Jang Ki Yong, shine the most when they are only in side roles.